The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-08-30
INTREPID STANLEY.
The Letters Received from Him by
sir Francis de wInton.
What the Explorer Tells Of His For
tunes and Progrsss.
Looking Forward to a Speedy Meet
Ing with EmIn Bey.

The first letter was written on the steamer
Peace. Mr.. Stanley says; 1--WE are now 1888
hours steaming above Klnshassa STANLEY
Pool, which was our point Of departure for
the Upper Congo. We started May /, with
612 men, besides.several riding animals. the
Henry Reed, of the Livingstone Inland Mis-
sion, leading the way with 131 men. The
second was the Stanley, towing the hull of
the steamer Florida (Which we had launched
only the day before, carrying 564 men, 800
loads of baggage and goods. 0 riding asses
and flock of goats. The. last was the
steamer Peace, towing two boats, with III
people on board"
A description of the trouble with the
steamers, whose machinery was not in good
order, and lcaused many vexatious delays,
follows In conclusion the letter says: I'VE
are now SAT miles from Stanley Pool
or 802 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. We
have 4S8 miles yet to steam to reach the rap
ids Of the Riperre, or AruWimi River, where
propose to form an intrenched camp, guard
ed by force OF 100 men. under Major Barte-
lot and Mr.. j. A. Jameson. Deducting Tip
pu Tbs people (9o), there will be force of
414 men, or $50 rifles and "a supernumeraries,
with which hope to effecta speedy march
to the Albert Nyanzi. For crossing rivers
and utilizing the AlbertI shall take my steel
boat with me. Lieutenant Stairs, II. r.. |:
Captain Nelson, of the Volunteers; DR..
Parks. Of the Army Medical Department,
and Mr.. Mounteney Jephson are the gentle
men chosen from necessity to accompany me.
tomorrow Major Bartelot, accompanied
by forty Soudanese, will escort Tippn Tib
and his people to Stanley Falls. As the
steamer will have to rejoin me at the rapids
OF Aruwimi, he will have leave to maintain
nigh speed on his steamer, and the day after
arrival at Stanley Falls he will have to re-
turn; This plan have adopted to prevent
the Zanzibaris being tempted to desert us by
the Zanzibaris at the Falls.
I'm my letter from Cairo | estimated that
the journey to Wadelai could be performed
via the Congo in 157 days from Zanzibar.
One hundred days have already passed. If
we meet with no accidents we may safely
reach the rapids sixteen days hence We
shall be then about $50 geographical miles
from the Albert. We may be detained few
days to wait for Major Bartelot, from the
Falls. Say that we have but thirty days left
OF the estimated time when we attempt the
first march. We shall ihave task of twelve
geographical miles to make each day. /
said in my speech at the Burlington Hotel
Until am landed at the point of disem-
barkment am in the nands of the engineers
and captains Of the various steamers that
are to convey the expedition This letter
will inform you of some of the delays to
which / have been subjected. But breaking
OF rudders and the crumpling up of thin
steel hulls and leaky steam boilers have not
been ALL We had to finish the construction
OF new steel steamer; we had to launch
her. The Peace alone detained us six days
at Leop0ldville before starting. Neverthe-
less, though it is. scarcely possible to march
twelve geographical miles per day steadily
for thirty days through an utterly unknown
country without guides or interpreters, we
shall do our best and maintain cheerful
hope that, as our best energies are devoted to
the work, we shall be rewarded with view
of the man we seek to relieve"
The second letter is as follows:
CAMP AT YAMBUyA RAPIDS,
Aruwimi River, June, 10, 1887.
we are safely here at last, eight days
behind the estimated time. 1t is not bad, it
might have been better. We are building
our intrenched camp. Stairs is busy at it.
see that the trench Of the palisades is al
ready sunk. Jameson is busy building his
house, which is to be store for goods also.
Nelson and Jephson are busy collecting fuel
to load the Stanley and Florida for the trip
down river The Henry Reed has not come
in from Stanley Falls yet, but we expect her
SrsfihhI hItth tthesa boats with fuel as quickly as
1--WE we captured this viii-eo Uy. means of
steamer whistles, ..srcf made such hideous
clamor that it served as protection for the
assaulting parties. We had talked for three
hours. Time was passing away the natives
the. Achilles manner, with poised spears
and erected shields. The Zanzibaris arriy-
ing at the top, eighty feet high above river,
found themselves in quite an empty village.
The nights grace we had given them had
enabled the natives to clear out their, valua-
bles. Poor souls, we did not need them
without price. Every fowl and goat had
vanished, but we have got square mile of
cassava gardens to feed our garrison. The
huts are of a narrow diameter, of the can
die extinguisher type. ranged in two rows on
either side of street twenty feet wide.
There are 1914 huts in this village, just
enough to house the advance force comfort
ably. Below and above us are miles OF
smaller villages, fifteen, twenty and thirty
huts in each, a background Of dense brush,
the river. p
Some natives have come in. Our scouts
arrested about dozen yesterday. They
were all released with presents.
1T appears to me as though this country
was the resort OF all the fragments of tribes
for many degrees around. hear Of over a
dozen tribes being represented in as many
miles here. We are in village belonging
TO the Watunga below us are the Baburu;
below them are the Batega; above us have
scending people, The more people the more
food, Of course. We release our captives at
once with small gifts and good words, seed
lngs, hope, of a future amicable inter-
course. Ii Bartelot will exercise patience
with them. long before we return they Will
will be firmly established.
Remember me most kindly to all the
committee, also Lady de Winton; and soon
It will be en- audnt for the Albert Lake.
While this letter is on its way to you IL Won
der what is in store for us. The Giver of All
Good Things be with you always, and may
He bless us both. Yours,
ii. nj. STANLEY"
A letter from Sir Francis de Winton was
also published in the Times, Sir Francis
thinks that Stanley has already met Emin
Bey and that news of the meeting may be
looked for the last of October.